A colorful street mural created in downtown Vista by world-renowned spray-paint artist Chor Boogie (Jason Hailey), who grew up in the area.

The oldest home in Huntington Beach, the farmhouse is a monument to the region's pioneer past.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The magic's in the hole!

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.